On the evening of January 6, 2004, 16-year-old Joshua Matthew Davis was walking home in the Vandora Village neighborhood of Garner, North Carolina, when he was found on the side of Hall Boulevard with a catastrophic head injury. He was taken to Wake Medical Center and died there. Early investigators treated the death as a hit-and-run, but the scene produced no vehicle debris, no paint transfer on Joshua’s clothing, and the medical examiner concluded the skull fracture was inconsistent with a typical traffic collision.

A witness described a young white male in a white hoodie and Carolina blue athletic pants, and a composite sketch was circulated, but that lead went nowhere and the case went cold for years as an unsolved homicide. In 2026 the investigation was reclassified as a homicide; a search warrant named a person of interest, Megan Bess Potter, a Four Oaks police officer who had attended high school with Joshua and had signed his funeral guest book. Electronics and digital evidence were seized and Potter and a former spouse were re-interviewed, but no charges or arrests have been announced.

Anyone who knew Joshua, saw activity in Vandora Village that night, or has information about the person seen in a white hoodie is asked to come forward.